Powder-box top.



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POWDER BOX TOP.

APPLIQATION FILED 5133.201908.

Patented' Jun@ 22, 1909.

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' neck 3 and around the shell inside below the threads and below UNITED STATES PATEN'T[Quim-CE WALTER H. PERKINS, OF CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBUBYMFG.' CO., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

POWDER-Box Tor.

Specification of Letters Patent.

resented June 22, `1909.

Application led April 2Q, 1908. `erial No. 428,233.

companying drawings and the characters of' reference marked thereon, to and which said drawings constitute part of this specih'cation. and represent, ink

be a ful1,'clear,

Figure l a side View of the upper part of a box top having its upper portion constructed in accordance kwith niv invention.l Fig. 2 a sectional View of the same on an enlarged scale. `Fig. 3 a top or plan view. F ig. 4 a top or plan view of the plug shell, detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in powder box tops, that is, boxes for containing toilet powder, tooth powder, or-

other similar preparations, to provide a simple which permits the free discharge of the conthe object rbeing tents of the holder and closely protects the contents when the device is closed; and the invention consistsl in the construction-hereafter described' and pointed out in the rlhe box top 2 is of any'desired'forin having a neck 3 formed integral with the upper part of the box and having internal preferably formed by From the neck 3 the top '5 tapers upward and has a central opening 6. Entering the neck from the inside is a shell 7 in the form of a plug which extends through the opening 6l l This shell has a threaded flange 8 to venga-ge with the threads 4 in the the flange are a series of perforations 9, and adjacent to the flange is an annular groove 10. After threads 4 which -are `the plug shell has been screwed into the neck Sina l indentations ll are formed in the neck the flange 8 to prevent the removal of the plug. The upexact description of the saine, andarrangement of parts' and' finger-piece and set inward to per or contracted portieri of' the .pl-ef;isl

adapted to freely pass through the opening 6 while the surface just below, the contracted portion is ada ted to vbear against the under face of the top 5 so V as 'to closethe openin 6 when the shellis turned outward. I'Pre erab'ly this shell is provided with a knurled edge 12 by which it may be conveniently turned and when -turned inward forms an opening between the plug' and the top through which the contents of the receptacle passing through the perforations 9 may ,es

cape. When the box is held upright and the cap turned outward anyportion of the powder remaining` betweenl the plug* and top will pass backinto the box, This de-l vice furnishes al box which not only permits Athe. contents to be freely-discharged and se curely closed, but also prevents the entire.

removal of the plug or cap so that it cannot be accidentally misplaced.

As a new article of manufacture, a powder-box ltop consisting of aflanged. body and an uprising cylindrical neck having internal threads and terminating in a taperingtop having a circular4 central dischargeopening; in combination with a valve-like sheet-metal plug comprisinga threaded flange taking into the internal threads f the neck, ahah-like finger-pieceprojecting through the said discharge-opening, and a tapering band connecting the said flange clear the tapering top of the neck and-formed with perforations, whereby a clearance space is produced between the top ofthe-neck and the plug forthe recept-ion of any powder that has passed through the perforations lthrough which any powder not -used may fall back into the box.

In testimony whereof,-I have signed'this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. WALTER HQPERKIN S. lVitnesses: l

Louis C. HOBART,

ADoLrH BECKER. 

